Earl Weaver Quotes

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• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  Investiture Speech by Mark Becker, Georgia State University President, president.gsu.edu. October 20, 2009.

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• Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

  Earl Weaver

  Dull, Extraordinary Things, Extraordinary

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• In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Baseball, Men

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• My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Games, Psychology

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• Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

  Earl Weaver

  Water, Optimism, Mind

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• On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

  Earl Weaver

  Tombstone, Writing, Loser

  "Earl Weaver" by Tom Verducci, www.si.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

  Earl Weaver

  Dollars, Three, Roles

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• This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

  Earl Weaver

  Football, Games, Football Game

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• Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

  Earl Weaver

  Winning, Dull, Pitching

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• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  Earl Weaver

  Hurt, Jobs, Team

  Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.

  Earl Weaver

  Running, Mistake, Team

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• I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

  Earl Weaver

  Meaningful, Sports, Winning

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• I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

  Earl Weaver

  Funny, Baseball, Wife

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• The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'

  Earl Weaver

  Horse, Dragons, Years

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• Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

  Earl Weaver

  Leadership, Sports, Honesty

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• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  Earl Weaver

  Jobs, Smart, Simple

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• I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

  Earl Weaver

  Baseball, Walks, Bases

  "Top Of The Sixth" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 6, 1996.

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• We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

  Earl Weaver

  Running, Home, Mean

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• I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

  Earl Weaver

  Guy, Twenties, Five

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• Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

  Earl Weaver

  Failing, Cigarette, Score

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• No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

  Earl Weaver

  Baseball, July, Games

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• If you know how to cheat, start now.

  Earl Weaver

  Baseball, Cheat, Know How

  "Top Of The Sixth" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 6, 1996.

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• Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

  Earl Weaver

  Team, Player, Coaches

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• I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

  Earl Weaver

  Thinking, Blood, Clubs

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• The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

  Earl Weaver

  Baseball, Keys, Balls

  Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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